Friday, August 22, 2025

On Gravy

"Do you have a good recipe for gravy?"

You bet your sweet drippin's I do! Good gravy makes the meal worth eating. I've known a wife who saved her marriage by learning to make gravy (well, not really, but I think it's a delicious idea for a short story-- romance and gravy -- what could go wrong?).  Perhaps gravy is more of a Southern specialty, the best of comfort foods; I don't know anyone who ever heard of "Yankee gravy".   

A friend was praising the cuisine of France recently, saying how the sauces are so delicious and the hallmark of fine French cooking.  Is that right.  I looked up some French sauce recipes, and they sure did look like "gravy" to me; no Frenchie chef has the upper hand on any American cook!  But France does lay claim to the very word. "Grave, graue: seasoned broth or sauce, from Old French, late 14th century." How tragic to think that people before the mid-1300s never had gravy over their potatoes, or with their sausage and biscuits, or on their chicken-fried steak. 

Many blessings come to those who refuse to use a canned gravy or one from a packaged mix. May I never eat butter again if one of those blasphemous items is found in Granny's kitchen!

The actual recipe for gravy depends on what was cooked and how it was cooked. The general idea is to strain some of the fat from the cooked meat, add some thickener (usually flour or a flour and cornstarch slurry), and then a liquid. Generally, you use the same amount of fat and flour; if you strain off 1/2 c fat drippings, you'd want to use 1/2 c flour. From that point, you can use half milk/water, or combination of stock or broth for the liquid portion. How much liquid you use depends on how thick you want the gravy, how much protein content the flour has (if you use bread flour, you need more water), or maybe how far you have to stretch it (!).

Tasty gravy starts days or weeks before you make it. Good gravy starts with stock made from leftover bones. When you have chicken, for instance, save all the bones and then boil them up with a bit of apple cider vinegar. Strain that liquid and freeze it. (Technically, it is called "stock" if it comes from bones, and "broth" if it is from the meat.)

For beef stock, you can buy "dog bones" from a local butcher. If you can find knuckle bones with a bit of meat still on them, oh my what a find! These you would roast a bit first to brown the meat, then cover with water and a bit of vinegar and cook for at least a day, maybe two. (Note: Careful -- if you cook them too much you may bring out too much glutamic acid and if you are sensitive to MSG, it may cause a headache. I boiled some awesome meaty bones for about three days once and that stock, though the tastiest I ever made, gave me a headache.)

If you have access to fish bones or even fish heads, boil them up and save the stock. This is not one that I do, so you're on your own as far as flavor and what you'd put it on. But in the Nourishing Traditions cookbook, use of fish heads for stock is highly recommended.

You can also make vegetable stock. Right now I have some carrots that need to be used, so one day soon they are going into the crockpot with some celery and onion (with the skin on for extra Quercitin, a bioflavonoid) and garlic and make some stock for the freezer. (hmm. If veggies don't have bones, I guess it's veg "broth" not stock. But then veggies don't have meat, either. Oh the dilemmas of a grammar nut.)

For the fat -- if you did not have enough drippings, add some butter to it to make the amount you need. NEVER throw out chicken or duck fat, but save it for later if you don't use it all. It freezes well and may come in handy for other needs.

Gravy secrets: To make smooooth gravy, be sure the flour is well cooked (but not necessarily brown), then add the liquid all at once, and stir constantly with a whisk until it is thickened. Some old timers used to add an egg yolk for extra smoothness, but if you have a bit of LECITHIN (as for making the Liposomal Vitamin C) on hand, you can dissolve a teaspoon in a bit of warm water then stir that in. And if you do get some lumps, as will happen, a few seconds with the Bamix (the world's best stick blender) will save your reputation. 

A quick check shows only two books on this hallowed homemaking topic, one from "Uncle Jerry" and the other some sort of AI project.  I think the Gravy Muses are calling me. 


Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Rainmaker, Deathmaker

This is Augustus Doricko, founder of Rainmaker.

Note the Tshirt -- "Jesus Christ, Let's turn this water into wine".
Note the RED bandage on left hand -- portending of BLOOD on his hands?
Note his name, "Augustus" -- perhaps he believes himself to be founding a modern empire?
Yes, he actually said this:
"Finding at the very least some deeply objective moral framework to justify all of your action I think is a good foundation" 21:00
He likens himself to Esther who is here "for such a time as this". 20:46
"So there's this verse from the Book of Esther in the Bible and Mordecai, Esther's Uncle, says to her, 'Well perhaps You've come to the kingdom for such a time as this right.' That echoes in my head all the time."
That echoes in my head all the time.
That echoes in my head all the time.

Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y0P8azKA_M


Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Trump Bombed Iran's Nuclear Sites

 I stand 100% with President Trump.

Video link here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J2hlgbgS7Y

He is not a war hawk like Graham, McConnell, Bolton, ad nauseum. He is a peacemaker. How can we not know his character after he dealt with Rocket Man (Kim, not Elon) last time? NK was captured by the same War Machine that is behind these current wars. Trump set them free.

I believe that President Trump knows and understands the Biblical Doctrine of War (Pastor John Weaver on Sermon Audio has excellent teaching on this). He knows the Rules; rules that have been blasphemously violated in our own nation since 1861. We will not see President Donald J. Trump waging imperialistic wars or setting up phony leaders in other countries as previous administrations have done. That's not who he is. He's told us again and again that he is giving America back to the People -- but first, he needs to take it back from those who have stolen it.
Who would those thieves be? They have gone by many names over the years. In this video, historian Barbara Boyd speaks of the British War Machine. I'm still exploring her work, and I'll be looking to see how far back in history she goes. I hope she agrees that Edomites, Amalekites, and Idumeans were the grandparents of the BWM, with Khazars, Bolsheviks and Communists of all flavors their grandchildren.
About that "British War Machine". At one time, the British were indomitable warriors. The jackboots of ancient Rome saw that first hand. Caracticus, Arviragus, Queen Boadicea were names that British school children learned in their first lessons as not only national heroes but spiritual leaders who served the Lord well. After all, the British identity was in the name: "brit" means covenant and "ish" means man in Hebrew. British "covenant men" had a contempt for death that made them dauntless in battle, something the Romans had not seen in other peoples. By 800 A.D., good King Alfred codified the Ten Commandments into what we know as Common Law. This was the height of the true, organic British War Machine that fought for family, home, and God.
It was not to last.

William of Normandy invaded Britain in 1066, bringing Khazarian imposters, deceptively identifying as Jews, who practiced Law Merchant (read: Mystery Babylon), i.e., usury and debt. By 1215, the landowners had had enough. They forced wicked King John to sign a pact at Runnymead called the Magna Carta, which had at least two proscriptions against the Khazarians' practice of usury.
Later on, the Khazars were expelled from England, but the infection was incurable. London forevermore became their financial throne, where it is to this day. The City of Money funded both sides of the Civil War, and until President Trump #45 went to London and canceled those bonds, we were all paying on them every April 15. And it would be an error to equate Moscow with the birth of the Russian Revolution. Marx lived in London. His followers Lenin and Trotsky and the Bolshevik boys held meetings there.
Money, violence, and revolutions.

This is the neo-British War Machine. It's not 'British' in any sense of the original people of Britain, but stolen long ago by usurpers who are masters at stealing not only money but national identities. This is the machine that President Trump is crushing with peace treaties, prosperity, and power to the people. It's like throwing water on a witch to these vicious, greedy miscreants; excellent job, Mr. President!





Friday, June 20, 2025

AI, Water, and Jesus

Yesterday, I heard about the MASSIVE amounts of WATER required by Artificial Intelligence. Today, the Spirit revealed truth to me.

Sit down for a second. This might hurt if you're not a Believer. And if you are, this might shock you.

1. Water holds information. Dr. Emoto exposed water to different elements, then froze it. The water took the shape of the frequency of the element it had been exposed to. Water near rock music became distorted; water near classical music had a beautiful snowflake pattern. Kind words spoken to rice (mostly water) caused a pleasant fermentation; harsh, unkind words spoken to rice caused black rot. Water is intelligent.

2. JESUS CHRIST IS THE LIVING WATER. “But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” John 4:14 WATER IS LIFE. JESUS IS ETERNAL LIFE.

3. AI is attempting to become God. There. I said it. Without water, there is no AI. The servers, the data centers, cooling equipment, all require MASSIVE amounts of water. AI is attempting to usurp the omniscience (ALL KNOWING) of the Living God.
4. AI is doomed. Hang on to your books.